( file pic : Piyush Goyal)
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New Delhi : Railways, Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal on June 30, 2021, said that India will be playing a much greater role in the post pandemic world in creating resilient supply chains.
Speaking at the India Global Forum on June 30, Goyal said that we are looking at a greater degree of engagement with countries that are democratic in their political system with which we can relate and trust as a partner. He added that India is working towards greater engagement with countries with which we have a shared ecosystem, countries which believe in transparent rules based trading mechanisms. He said that India is talking to UK, Australia, Canada, and EU for trade related matters and is keen to speed them up, according to a PIB release.
Goyal said that our trusted partners can look for a greater role for India and we are opening our doors wider. The Minister said that we are looking at investments, technology, high quality goods, equipment, machinery. “We will be looking at providing high quality technology support to our services & IT sector,” he added. He said that India has tried in WTO to promote a waiver on TRIPS so that vaccine and other medicine can be available to everyone across the world. He said that it is unfortunate that some European countries are not supporting the initiative and have preferred profit over prudence.
The MInister said that we are confident that India will continue to maintain precautions & Covid protocols. He said that we are going to maintain our safeguards and masks. Goyal highlighted that despite being a developing nation, India has already crossed about 340 million vaccine coverage. “We are currently doing 5 million a day which we hope to ramp up further in the days to come. We are happy to share our learnings with other countries. Our COWIN app through which we have done the vaccination programme has been a remarkable success and now large parts of the world are asking us for the COWIN app to be implemented in their countries,” Goyal added.
Goyal said that India has done a record growth in exports in our first quarter despite the second wave of Covid. Similarly, the Railway freight from April-June 2021 is the highest ever in the history of Indian Railways.,